tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) (09/18/89)
For new UUCP and Usenet administrators, I recommend the Nutshell
Handbook MANAGING UUCP AND USENET, from O'Reilly and Associates. They
really cover the ground.
For more information mail to uunet!ora!nuts. I have no affiliation
with them except as a satisfied customer.
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I've recently been put in charge of news administration at our site, and don't really know that much about how to go about it. There are quite a few others around the net in the same boat - so if anyone could give me/us some handy- hints on what to do and what not to do, I/we'd really appreciate it. A few specific questions though for any inews gurus out there: What does inews do when I create a local group?. Does it create the relevant /usr/spool/news/... directory? (if so, why doesn't mine?). When do control messages get processed?. What causes checkgroups messages to be sent out? How do I avoid doing this, particularly if it affects other sites?. How do I select which newsgroups I do, and which ones I don't want to receive?. Has anyone got a "beginners guide to news administration" type doc they could send me?. I've been a newsreader for over 1 year, so I'm very familiar with it from a user's point of view; but don't know what goes on behind the scenes. Any help greatly appreciated, Greyham. -- /* Greyham Stoney: +61 2 428 6476 <- yes; that's a phone number! * * greyham@hades.oz - Ausonics Pty Ltd, Lane Cove, Sydney, Oz. * * TDMP/IP: Telepathic Direct Marketing Personel Interface Protocol */
bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) (09/20/89)
In article <435@hades.OZ> greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney) writes:
: Has anyone got a "beginners guide to news administration" type
: doc they could send me?. I've been a newsreader for over 1 year, so I'm
: very familiar with it from a user's point of view; but don't know what goes
: on behind the scenes.
You probably want to get "Managing UUCP and Usenet" from O'Reilly &
Associates. This has lots of good information in it. You can send
them e-mail at uunet!ora!nuts.
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